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Message no. 1
From: scott@**********.com (Scott Harrison)
Subject: DriveThruRPG.com PDFs
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:19:58 +0100
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Hi all,

I would like to congratulate the teams involved for this effort. I
just bought the Matrix book, and while the price was higher than I
appreciated, I do love the fact that I can search the PDF for what I
need. In fact, when I get Tiger, Spotlight searching across multiple
books will probably be very pleasant!

I do hope that more books will come online (including the currently
available ones) so I can game solely with my laptop vice a stack of
books (I own them all -- including UB :-) ).

Thank you all!

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Message no. 2
From: adam@************.com (Adam Jury)
Subject: DriveThruRPG.com PDFs
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:17:24 -0700
On 7-Feb-05, at 7:19 AM, Scott Harrison wrote:

> I would like to congratulate the teams involved for this effort. I
> just bought the Matrix book, and while the price was higher than I
> appreciated, I do love the fact that I can search the PDF for what I
> need. In fact, when I get Tiger, Spotlight searching across multiple
> books will probably be very pleasant!

*whimpers*

I want Tiger now.

More SR products will be online this week - and check it out, we
currently have six or seven titles on the DTRPG best sellers list! :-)

Cheers,
Adam

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http://www.shadowrunrpg.com
Message no. 3
From: maxnoel_fr@*****.fr (Max Noel)
Subject: DriveThruRPG.com PDFs
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:31:56 +0000
On Feb 7, 2005, at 15:17, Adam Jury wrote:

>
> On 7-Feb-05, at 7:19 AM, Scott Harrison wrote:
>
>> I would like to congratulate the teams involved for this effort. I
>> just bought the Matrix book, and while the price was higher than I
>> appreciated, I do love the fact that I can search the PDF for what I
>> need. In fact, when I get Tiger, Spotlight searching across multiple
>> books will probably be very pleasant!
>
> *whimpers*
>
> I want Tiger now.

I echo that.

> More SR products will be online this week - and check it out, we
> currently have six or seven titles on the DTRPG best sellers list! :-)

Kudos for this initiative. And thanks a lot for not DRM'ing the books
(needless to say, had they had any form of DRM, I wouldn't even have
considered buying any of them). I'm going to buy the Underworld
Sourcebook as soon as it hits Battlecorps.com (I find it's even better
without watermarks :D ), and only 8 bucks for RA:S just screams
"bargain" to me.

Now, is there any chance of Rigger 3 Revised being available in
electronic form anytime soon? I love to play riggers, the paper version
of this book just drives me crazy with its lack of index. A searchable
version would be an instance of Best Thing Ever(TM).

-- Wild_Cat
maxnoel_fr at yahoo dot fr -- ICQ #85274019
"Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting
and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge a
perfect, immortal machine?"
Message no. 4
From: jjvanp@*****.com (Jan Jaap van Poelgeest)
Subject: DriveThruRPG.com PDFs
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:53:55 -0800 (PST)
Is there any chance of seeing the following books
being put on as a package deal?:

Shadowrun 3rd Edition
Shadowrun Companion (3rd ed.)
Magic in the Shadows
Man & Machine
Cannon Companion
Rigger 3
Matrix
Character Dossier

This set ought to make the whole Shadowrun experience
eminently search- and playable for anyone. If a
discount can't be arranged, maybe throw in a free
sourcebook (New Seattle) if you purchase all of the
above in one go?

Would it be legal to create "The Compleat Equippement
Liste" from the text in those (+other) books and put
it up for free? I believe something like this has been
asked previously, but given the relative ease with
which one will soon be able to create such a list it
might be pertinent to see this question re-examined.
If compiling such a list would be illegal, perhaps it
(or any such "GM reference" product) would be a
worthwhile document to sell on Drivethru?

cheers,

Jan Jaap



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Message no. 5
From: paul@*********.demon.co.uk (Paul Squires)
Subject: DriveThruRPG.com PDFs
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 18:10:17 +0000
Jan Jaap van Poelgeest wrote:
> Is there any chance of seeing the following books
> being put on as a package deal?:
>
<snip>

I can actually see a pretty good demand for compilations of "old" books.
Imagine Sprawl Sites, Seattle and New Seattle all combined, properly
compiled and presented.

Or maybe it's just me :)


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Message no. 6
From: adam@************.com (Adam Jury)
Subject: DriveThruRPG.com PDFs
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:37:56 -0700
On 7-Feb-05, at 10:53 AM, Jan Jaap van Poelgeest wrote:

> Is there any chance of seeing the following books
> being put on as a package deal?:

Never say never, but we hadn't made plans for bundling yet.

> Would it be legal to create "The Compleat Equippement
> Liste" from the text in those (+other) books and put
> it up for free? I believe something like this has been
> asked previously, but given the relative ease with
> which one will soon be able to create such a list it
> might be pertinent to see this question re-examined.
> If compiling such a list would be illegal, perhaps it
> (or any such "GM reference" product) would be a
> worthwhile document to sell on Drivethru?

If you do not have permission to distribute content from the books [and
buying a book does not give you said permission ... they're for
personal use], then yes, it would be illegal.

There's certainly the potential to do "New" products based on
compilations of material, such as the Big Book of Charts or the Big
Book of Maps, but right now the priority is getting more backstock
online while keeping pace with production of new material.

Cheers,
Adam
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Adam Jury
http://www.shadowrunrpg.com
Message no. 7
From: owen@***.edu.au (Owen McKerrow)
Subject: DriveThruRPG.com PDFs
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:53:37 +1100
>
> There's certainly the potential to do "New" products based on
> compilations of material, such as the Big Book of Charts or the Big
> Book of Maps, but right now the priority is getting more backstock
> online while keeping pace with production of new material.
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
> --
> Adam Jury
> http://www.shadowrunrpg.com

One question I have is will people who buy the "new" books online get
free updates if an erratta is released ? Lets say that you by Mr J's
Little Black Book online. Then you guys release a new print version
with Errata. Will people who downloaded the PDF version somehow be able
to get a new version with the Errata fixes included ?

Thanks
Owen McKerrow
WebMaster, emlab
http://emlab.uow.edu.au

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Message no. 8
From: adam@************.com (Adam Jury)
Subject: DriveThruRPG.com PDFs
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:30:17 -0700
On 7-Feb-05, at 3:53 PM, Owen McKerrow wrote:

> One question I have is will people who buy the "new" books online get
> free updates if an erratta is released ? Lets say that you by Mr J's
> Little Black Book online. Then you guys release a new print version
> with Errata. Will people who downloaded the PDF version somehow be
> able to get a new version with the Errata fixes included ?

Yes. A reprinting of a book would be cause for an update to the PDF
book, unless there were no errata changes made.

Best,
Adam
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http://www.shadowrunrpg.com
Message no. 9
From: paul@*********.demon.co.uk (Paul Squires)
Subject: DriveThruRPG.com PDFs
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:32:39 +0000
Adam Jury wrote:
>
> On 7-Feb-05, at 3:53 PM, Owen McKerrow wrote:
>
>> One question I have is will people who buy the "new" books online get
>> free updates if an erratta is released ? Lets say that you by Mr J's
>> Little Black Book online. Then you guys release a new print version
>> with Errata. Will people who downloaded the PDF version somehow be
>> able to get a new version with the Errata fixes included ?
>
>
> Yes. A reprinting of a book would be cause for an update to the PDF
> book, unless there were no errata changes made.
>
> Best,
> Adam
> --
> Adam Jury
> http://www.shadowrunrpg.com
>
>
Wow, this just gets better and better!

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Message no. 10
From: owen@***.edu.au (Owen McKerrow)
Subject: DriveThruRPG.com PDFs
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:04:49 +1100
On 08/02/2005, at 10:30 AM, Adam Jury wrote:

>
> On 7-Feb-05, at 3:53 PM, Owen McKerrow wrote:
>
>> One question I have is will people who buy the "new" books online get
>> free updates if an erratta is released ? Lets say that you by Mr J's
>> Little Black Book online. Then you guys release a new print version
>> with Errata. Will people who downloaded the PDF version somehow be
>> able to get a new version with the Errata fixes included ?
>
> Yes. A reprinting of a book would be cause for an update to the PDF
> book, unless there were no errata changes made.
>
> Best,
> Adam

Just to double check, you say that a update would happen, but do we get
to download it for free ( assuming we have already paid for the old
version ).


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Message no. 11
From: adam@************.com (Adam Jury)
Subject: DriveThruRPG.com PDFs
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:25:18 -0700
On 7-Feb-05, at 7:04 PM, Owen McKerrow wrote:
>
> Just to double check, you say that a update would happen, but do we
> get to download it for free ( assuming we have already paid for the
> old version ).

Yes.

Adam
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